Carsten Smith‐Hall

4.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
79 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Carsten Smith‐Hall is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Economics and Econometrics and General Agricultural and Biological Sciences. According to data from OpenAlex, Carsten Smith‐Hall has authored 79 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 40 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 27 papers in Economics and Econometrics and 22 papers in General Agricultural and Biological Sciences. Recurrent topics in Carsten Smith‐Hall's work include Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (35 papers), Economic and Environmental Valuation (23 papers) and Forest Management and Policy (12 papers). Carsten Smith‐Hall is often cited by papers focused on Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (35 papers), Economic and Environmental Valuation (23 papers) and Forest Management and Policy (12 papers). Carsten Smith‐Hall collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, Nepal and United Kingdom. Carsten Smith‐Hall's co-authors include Helle Overgaard Larsen, Sven Wunder, Arild Angelsen, Mariève Pouliot, Finn Helles, Jan Börner, B. Belcher, Ronnie Babigumira, Simone Bauch and Pamela Jagger and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Conservation Biology and Ecological Economics.

In The Last Decade

Carsten Smith‐Hall

78 papers receiving 3.0k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Environmental Income and Rural Livelihoods: A Global-Comparative Analysis

2014 792 citations Arild Angelsen, Pamela Jagger et al. World Development profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Carsten Smith‐Hall Denmark	30	1.6k	697	648	628	425	79	3.3k
Amy Ickowitz Indonesia	27	1.1k 0.7×	536 0.8×	602 0.9×	365 0.6×	237 0.6×	60	2.9k
Kate Schreckenberg United Kingdom	32	1.9k 1.2×	473 0.7×	422 0.7×	580 0.9×	343 0.8×	83	3.4k
Delia Catacutan Kenya	19	954 0.6×	272 0.4×	604 0.9×	269 0.4×	254 0.6×	52	2.1k
L. Buck United States	20	1.5k 1.0×	268 0.4×	461 0.7×	247 0.4×	256 0.6×	56	2.5k
Sheona Shackleton South Africa	38	2.3k 1.5×	853 1.2×	724 1.1×	527 0.8×	644 1.5×	106	4.9k
Rachael Garrett United States	33	1.5k 0.9×	390 0.6×	879 1.4×	501 0.8×	105 0.2×	76	3.3k
K.F. Wiersum Netherlands	28	1.5k 1.0×	516 0.7×	428 0.7×	171 0.3×	209 0.5×	125	2.6k
Ingo Zasada Germany	30	1.2k 0.8×	1.1k 1.6×	721 1.1×	353 0.6×	249 0.6×	49	2.8k
Shakuntala H. Thilsted Malaysia	42	1.4k 0.9×	497 0.7×	486 0.8×	297 0.5×	267 0.6×	152	6.7k
Jun He China	25	916 0.6×	315 0.5×	306 0.5×	220 0.4×	338 0.8×	97	2.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Carsten Smith‐Hall

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Nielsen, Martin Reinhardt, et al.. (2025). Do high-value environmental products provide a pathway out of poverty? The case of the world's most valuable fungus (Ophiocordyceps sinensis). Environmental Development. 56. 101281–101281.

Smith‐Hall, Carsten, Dipesh Pyakurel, Thorsten Treue, et al.. (2025). A roadmap to sustainable management of commercial medicinal and aromatic plants, fungi, and lichens in Nepal. Conservation Biology. 39(4). e14442–e14442. 2 indexed citations

Smith‐Hall, Carsten, et al.. (2024). What matters? A global meta-analysis of environmental income and reliance determinants. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 3. 1 indexed citations

Smith‐Hall, Carsten, et al.. (2024). Uncertainty and perceived cause-effect help explain differences in adaptation responses between Swidden agriculture and agroforestry smallholders. Environmental Science & Policy. 159. 103819–103819. 2 indexed citations

Chamberlain, James M. & Carsten Smith‐Hall. (2023). Harnessing the full potential of a global forest-based bioeconomy through non-timber products: Beyond logs, biotechnology, and high-income countries. Forest Policy and Economics. 158. 103105–103105. 7 indexed citations

Smith‐Hall, Carsten, et al.. (2023). Three models to illustrate plant-people relationships in the medicinal plant hotspots of North East India. Ethnobotany Research and Applications. 26. 6 indexed citations

Smith‐Hall, Carsten & James M. Chamberlain. (2023). Environmental products: a definition, a typology, and a goodbye to non-timber forest products. The International Forestry Review. 25(4). 491–502. 7 indexed citations

Smith‐Hall, Carsten, Dipesh Pyakurel, Henrik Meilby, et al.. (2023). The sustainability of trade in wild plants—A data-integration approach tested on critically endangered Nardostachys jatamansi. PNAS Nexus. 2(11). pgad328–pgad328. 6 indexed citations

Fold, Niels, Dipesh Pyakurel, Mariève Pouliot, & Carsten Smith‐Hall. (2023). Global production networks and medicinal plants: Upstream actor dynamics in Nepal. Geographical Journal. 189(3). 455–468. 2 indexed citations

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Smith‐Hall, Carsten, et al.. (2022). Wild harvesting or cultivation of commercial environmental products: A theoretical model and its application to medicinal plants. Ecological Economics. 205. 107701–107701. 13 indexed citations

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Walelign, Solomon Zena, Carsten Smith‐Hall, Santosh Rayamajhi, & Bir Bahadur Khanal Chhetri. (2022). A unique environmental augmented household-level livelihood panel dataset from Nepal. Data in Brief. 42. 108168–108168. 1 indexed citations

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Pouliot, Mariève, Dipesh Pyakurel, & Carsten Smith‐Hall. (2018). High altitude organic gold: The production network for Ophiocordyceps sinensis from far-western Nepal. Journal of Ethnopharmacology. 218. 59–68. 44 indexed citations

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Pyakurel, Dipesh, et al.. (2018). Patterns of change: The dynamics of medicinal plant trade in far-western Nepal. Journal of Ethnopharmacology. 224. 323–334. 52 indexed citations

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Dons, Klaus, et al.. (2016). Indirect approach for estimation of forest degradation in non-intact dry forest: modelling biomass loss with Tweedie distributions. Carbon Balance and Management. 11(1). 14–14. 8 indexed citations

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Angelsen, Arild, Pamela Jagger, Ronnie Babigumira, et al.. (2014). Environmental Income and Rural Livelihoods: A Global-Comparative Analysis. World Development. 64(Suppl 1). S12–S28. 792 indexed citations breakdown →

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Smith‐Hall, Carsten, Helle Overgaard Larsen, & Mariève Pouliot. (2012). People, plants and health: a conceptual framework for assessing changes in medicinal plant consumption. Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine. 8(1). 43–43. 81 indexed citations

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Smith‐Hall, Carsten & Finn Helles. (2009). Market efficiency and benefit distribution in medicinal plant markets: empirical evidence from South Asia. Research at the University of Copenhagen (University of Copenhagen). 5(2). 53–62. 28 indexed citations

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Rayamajhi, Santosh, et al.. (2008). Estimating forest product values in Central Himalaya - methodological experiences. AgEcon Search (University of Minnesota, USA). 2008(42). 468–488. 7 indexed citations

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Larsen, Helle Overgaard, Patrick Smith, & Carsten Smith‐Hall. (2005). Nepal's conservation policy options for commercial medicinal plant harvesting: stakeholder views. Oryx. 39(4). 435–441. 16 indexed citations

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Smith‐Hall, Carsten & Finn Helles. (2000). Towards a new forest policy in Swaziland.. The International Forestry Review. 2(4). 254–260. 3 indexed citations

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